Daniel Hoffman Schwartz Doina and Als Dances (klezmer fiddle)

A performance from the December, 2011 premier of Daniel Hoffman s new deep klezmer fiddle project, Violin Without a Case at the Inbal Theater in Tel Aviv. The violin is from the TelAviv violin maker Amnon Weinstein s Violins of Hope collection a treasury of precious violins rescued and restored from prewar Europe. The video starts with a version of a doina originally recorded by Abe Schwartz in New York in the 1920s. Then we hear Al s Dances, a piece composed by Daniel for the San Diego Repertory Theater production of Yehuda Hyman s brilliant musicalplay, The Mad Dancer. more information on this project is at featuring violinist Daniel Hoffman with Gilad Ephrat contrabass, Boris Martzinovsky accordion, and Yair Salzman drums filmed by Ronny Yoel of Lamalo Studio in Tel Aviv. Editing by Nir Waxman